Re: [PATCH21.5] MS Visual Studio 2005 and XP visual themes
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>>>>"Jonathan" == Jonathan Harris
<jonathan(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>
Jonathan> Small fixes for building under MS Visual Studio 20050
What is the party line on tracking MS's SDKs?
I have no personal opinion (I can't do the work), but I am concerned
because Python's Windows maintainer (whom I respect) is saying
"patches welcome, but the VS 2005 will not be supported" because it's
a pain in the butt for him. We already have a lot of Windows variants
to support (including Cygwin and I suspect some people would like
Mingwin/MSYS), but the only really active Windows developer over the
last two years has been Ben, and he's sporadic.
theoretically we support mingw. in practice i don't test with it, so it
probably is slightly bit-rotted (but not much, since i always test with
cygwin); but every so often someone (Craig Lanning?) submits patches.
i don't see anything wrong with patches for VS 2005; after all, we'll
have to "support" it eventually. it's all "no warranty" of course
:)
i.e. it's likely to work with whatever my build system is, but not
guaranteed for anything else.
ben